Sunday Report: Thursday Night Magic

So this past week all I really did was Thursday Night Magic. I was on junk midrange for standard. As usual, here is the report:

Round 1, I faced against mono green devotion. The life totals were all over the place, with his tuskers, a nylea, and a bow getting me down to 3 life. Luckily I had a trostani and an obzedat to start
gaining me life back, and start draining him.
In the second game, I got out a trostani turn 3, whip turn 4, obzedat turn 5, and it proved too much as I doom bladed a lot of his guys to keep Nylea off of devotion count. I won this match 2-0




Round 2 was against a mono red ramp deck. This deck had a burnished hart and ember swallower to try to win out the game.

In game 1, he was mana flooded, he ended up getting about 12 lands before I killed him. In game 2, he only brought out one burnished hart that I immidately devour flesh'd, then started swinging in with an unblocked obzedat, quickly ending the game. I won this match 2-0.

Round 3 was against a bant planeswalker deck.
In game 1, I was incredibly unlucky. Mulligan to 6, no lands. Mulligan to 5, no lands. Mulligan to 4, I have 2 lands, a doom blade, and a reaper of the wilds. I decide I have to keep it. I never draw a third land while he has 7 lands and is able to cast anything in his deck. I eventually just scoop them up as I look and see I am not drawing a land for another 5 turns.
So game 2 rolls around and I decide to shuffle it up very well. He has an ajani, caller of the pride with gideon, champion of justice combo. He is able to swing at me 10 life points a turn with this combo, but I am able to stabilize with the whip of erebos and gain more life than he can.
Game 3 comes up, and again I have to mulligan until I mulligan to 5 to get some lands. I am able to stabalize to 13 life but he destroys my whip of erebos, then his following turn he animates gideon, +1's with ajani, then summons a second ajani and +1's it again, then summons a third ajani to give the gideon double strike and flying. It is enough to put me at -1 life, thus losing the match.

The final round was against rakdos aggro. He brought me down to 1 life before I was able to summon a whip and stabilize. He had used a mogi's maurader and Tymeret, the murder king to shotgun me down to one life. I was only able to survive thanks to sylvan caraytid being hexproof and a great blocker at three defense.
Since I knew all of his tricks, second game I was playing around mogi's maurader, grey merchant of asphodel, and Tyrmeret the entire game. I drew an early trostani and regenerated it twice with a golgari charm to keep it alive, gaining me more life than he could do damage with.


So that is my report for this week. I only played one event, mainly because I didn't have anyone else to go with to any other events. I usually don't like to play events by myself, having friends is what makes events more fun!
Outside of the bad land hands, I am still happy with how this deck is running. I felt that lands were a bit clunky, as even in rounds I am winning I am stuck with 2 or 3 lands and having to have sylvan caraytid get me there. So I was faced with an option. Do I want to put in another land? Do I want to put in some way to fix my draws? Do I want to put in elvish mystics?

I settled with putting in 4x read the bones after Thursday Night magic. Sadly I haven't had a chance to test it since then, but maybe next week!